Occasionally, as happened yesterday in an instruction session, I've had students ask me if Harvard has Westlaw access (or the "full" version of LexisNexis). Here's what to know:
1. While the Law School Library does subscribe to Westlaw, it does so only for its population. On site Reference questions are sometimes answered with Westlaw, but Law Librarians do not offer any kind of mediated searching for patrons and undergraduates shouldn't be sent there with that expectation.
2. At the Law School Library, the same policies apply for LexisNexis.
3. The KSG Library does have a terminal from which patrons can use the more robust version of LexisNexis. Librarians will help a student get started (since the dot commands take some getting used to), but there is no mediated searching offered.
The KSG terminal dedicated to LexisNexis is not attached to a printer, incidentally, so patrons you direct there should be prepared to email or should bring a memory stick with them.
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This is helpful information, not only about Westlaw but also about the setup for Lexis-Nexis at the Law School. I didn't realize that law students had to log on to L-N with individual account codes and passwords.
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